[NetBehaviour] Fwd: Crypto-Gram, September 15, 2020

[Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour]

Another invaluable resource here I think - you can subscribe directly to it
- Alan -

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September 15, 2020

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In this issue:

   1. Robocall Results from a Telephony Honeypot
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   2. Vaccine for Emotet Malware <#m_6045089125423427863_cg2>
   3. Using Disinformation to Cause a Blackout <#m_6045089125423427863_cg3>
   4. Copying a Key by Listening to It in Action
   <#m_6045089125423427863_cg4>
   5. Yet Another Biometric: Bioacoustic Signatures
   <#m_6045089125423427863_cg5>
   6. DiceKeys <#m_6045089125423427863_cg6>
   7. Identifying People by Their Browsing Histories
   <#m_6045089125423427863_cg7>
   8. Amazon Supplier Fraud <#m_6045089125423427863_cg8>
   9. Cory Doctorow on *The Age of Surveillance Capitalism*
   <#m_6045089125423427863_cg9>
   10. US Postal Service Files Blockchain Voting Patent
   <#m_6045089125423427863_cg10>
   11. Seny Kamara on "Crypto for the People" <#m_6045089125423427863_cg11>
   12. North Korea ATM Hack <#m_6045089125423427863_cg12>
   13. Insider Attack on the Carnegie Library <#m_6045089125423427863_cg13>
   14. 2017 Tesla Hack <#m_6045089125423427863_cg14>
   15. Hacking AI-Graded Tests <#m_6045089125423427863_cg15>
   16. More on NIST's Post-Quantum Cryptography
   <#m_6045089125423427863_cg16>
   17. US Space Cybersecurity Directive <#m_6045089125423427863_cg17>
   18. The Third Edition of Ross Anderson's *Security Engineering*
   <#m_6045089125423427863_cg18>
   19. Ranking National Cyber Power <#m_6045089125423427863_cg19>
   20. Interesting Attack on the EMV Smartcard Payment Standard
   <#m_6045089125423427863_cg20>
   21. Upcoming Speaking Engagements <#m_6045089125423427863_cg21>

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Robocall Results from a Telephony Honeypot

*[2020.08.17]*
 A
group of researchers set up a telephony honeypot and tracked robocall
behavior

:

NCSU researchers said they ran 66,606 telephone lines between March 2019
and January 2020, during which time they said to have received 1,481,201
unsolicited calls -- even if they never made their phone numbers public via
any source.

The research team said they usually received an unsolicited call every 8.42
days, but most of the robocall traffic came in sudden surges they called
“storms” that happened at regular intervals, suggesting that robocallers
operated using a tactic of short-burst and well-organized campaigns.

In total, the NCSU team said it tracked 650 storms over 11 months, with
most storms being of the same size.

Research paper .
USENIX talk
.
Slashdot thread

.

** *** * *** *** *
Vaccine for Emotet Malware

*[2020.08.18]*

Interesting story

of a vaccine for the Emotet malware:

Through trial and error and thanks to subsequent Emotet updates that
refined how the new persistence mechanism worked, Quinn was able to put
together a tiny PowerShell script that exploited the registry key mechanism
to crash Emotet itself.

The script, cleverly named EmoCrash, effectively scanned a user’s computer
and generated a correct -- but malformed -- Emotet registry key.

When Quinn tried to purposely infect a clean computer with Emotet, the
malformed registry key triggered a buffer overflow in Emotet’s code and
crashed the malware, effectively preventing users from getting infected.

When Quinn ran EmoCrash on computers already infected with Emotet, the
script would replace the good registry key with the malformed one, and when
Emotet would re-check the registry key, the malware would crash as well,
preventing infected hosts from

Re: [NetBehaviour] Rosh Hashonah, Mother's Birthday, Grey Skies, Nowhere

[Alan Sondheim]

maybe only late in the sense that it was either very early morning or very 
late night...


On Fri, 18 Sep 2020, Michael Szpakowski wrote:


Absolutely transfixing. I wouldn?t wish a ?late style? on anyone but there?s a 
sense
of complete purpose and control here allied to an ease in its making, an
openness to what comes...


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On Friday, September 18, 2020, 9:55 pm, Alan Sondheim 
wrote:



Rosh Hashonah, Mother's Birthday, Grey Skies, Nowhere

I can't get far enough away from Wilkes-Barre.
We had to dress up to cross the river.
On whatever side of the river, always the other.
I remember general Radio, Wide-Awake Books, and Percy Brown's
Where gourmet food was served in the coal country.
I hung out embarrassed among ham radio operators.
Scared of them I never went back.
Scared of everyone, I was interested in coal.
There were forests beneath the ground.
A fifty-meter high sigillaria on the side of a cliff.
Or some other plant, I almost forget the names
As I remember reassembling the skeleton and learning about death.
I knew I didn't belong in the large world
but only in the shtetl in Kingston Pennsylvania.
There was no large world I was scared of it
looking to New York as the promised land.
Five and a half hours into the city, five and a half out of it.
Always surrounded by gray mountains I want to spell grey
and the inconceivably greyness of the landscape and fierce snows.
In the summer waiting for the winter, in the winter waiting,
allergies and hives, weekly injections, wanting to get out,
frightened of leaving, frightened of staying, my father's anger
everywhere, lengthening this sentence of the poem as I ran back
to the bedroom, trembling, hiding out, to this day remembering
his voice that I'd never amount to anything, don't worry dad I
didn't
my sister and I maybe my brother calling them the parents, there
were maybe other names, we had names for each other, I planted
watermelon seeds in my mother's garden they grew covering
everything as if that was that
and nothing was I was always displaced from myself was afraid
what was under the bed nothing nothing nothing what was above
it still less those gray skies I cried away and away and away
shoving myself off to college and always looking back and
see the graveyard of the Jews in the next town over, all of
us buried there, last time I cried in hysterics, remains
of the shtetl where we dressed up to cross the river to the
other city of course on the other side
always on the other side, always and always on the other side,
always one side over


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Re: [NetBehaviour] Rosh Hashonah, Mother's Birthday, Grey Skies, Nowhere

[Michael Szpakowski]

Absolutely transfixing. I wouldn’t wish a ‘late style’ on anyone but there’s a 
sense of complete purpose and control here allied to an ease in its making, an 
openness to what comes...


Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone


On Friday, September 18, 2020, 9:55 pm, Alan Sondheim  
wrote:



Rosh Hashonah, Mother's Birthday, Grey Skies, Nowhere

I can't get far enough away from Wilkes-Barre.
We had to dress up to cross the river.
On whatever side of the river, always the other.
I remember general Radio, Wide-Awake Books, and Percy Brown's
Where gourmet food was served in the coal country.
I hung out embarrassed among ham radio operators.
Scared of them I never went back.
Scared of everyone, I was interested in coal.
There were forests beneath the ground.
A fifty-meter high sigillaria on the side of a cliff.
Or some other plant, I almost forget the names
As I remember reassembling the skeleton and learning about death.
I knew I didn't belong in the large world
but only in the shtetl in Kingston Pennsylvania.
There was no large world I was scared of it
looking to New York as the promised land.
Five and a half hours into the city, five and a half out of it.
Always surrounded by gray mountains I want to spell grey
and the inconceivably greyness of the landscape and fierce snows.
In the summer waiting for the winter, in the winter waiting,
allergies and hives, weekly injections, wanting to get out,
frightened of leaving, frightened of staying, my father's anger
everywhere, lengthening this sentence of the poem as I ran back
to the bedroom, trembling, hiding out, to this day remembering
his voice that I'd never amount to anything, don't worry dad I
didn't
my sister and I maybe my brother calling them the parents, there
were maybe other names, we had names for each other, I planted
watermelon seeds in my mother's garden they grew covering
everything as if that was that
and nothing was I was always displaced from myself was afraid
what was under the bed nothing nothing nothing what was above
it still less those gray skies I cried away and away and away
shoving myself off to college and always looking back and
see the graveyard of the Jews in the next town over, all of
us buried there, last time I cried in hysterics, remains
of the shtetl where we dressed up to cross the river to the
other city of course on the other side
always on the other side, always and always on the other side,
always one side over


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[NetBehaviour] Rosh Hashonah, Mother's Birthday, Grey Skies, Nowhere

[Alan Sondheim]

Rosh Hashonah, Mother's Birthday, Grey Skies, Nowhere

I can't get far enough away from Wilkes-Barre.
We had to dress up to cross the river.
On whatever side of the river, always the other.
I remember general Radio, Wide-Awake Books, and Percy Brown's
Where gourmet food was served in the coal country.
I hung out embarrassed among ham radio operators.
Scared of them I never went back.
Scared of everyone, I was interested in coal.
There were forests beneath the ground.
A fifty-meter high sigillaria on the side of a cliff.
Or some other plant, I almost forget the names
As I remember reassembling the skeleton and learning about death.
I knew I didn't belong in the large world
but only in the shtetl in Kingston Pennsylvania.
There was no large world I was scared of it
looking to New York as the promised land.
Five and a half hours into the city, five and a half out of it.
Always surrounded by gray mountains I want to spell grey
and the inconceivably greyness of the landscape and fierce snows.
In the summer waiting for the winter, in the winter waiting,
allergies and hives, weekly injections, wanting to get out,
frightened of leaving, frightened of staying, my father's anger
everywhere, lengthening this sentence of the poem as I ran back
to the bedroom, trembling, hiding out, to this day remembering
his voice that I'd never amount to anything, don't worry dad I
didn't
my sister and I maybe my brother calling them the parents, there
were maybe other names, we had names for each other, I planted
watermelon seeds in my mother's garden they grew covering
everything as if that was that
and nothing was I was always displaced from myself was afraid
what was under the bed nothing nothing nothing what was above
it still less those gray skies I cried away and away and away
shoving myself off to college and always looking back and
see the graveyard of the Jews in the next town over, all of
us buried there, last time I cried in hysterics, remains
of the shtetl where we dressed up to cross the river to the
other city of course on the other side
always on the other side, always and always on the other side,
always one side over


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Re: [NetBehaviour] CV-17, 2020.

[marc garrett via NetBehaviour]

Hi Alan,

It seems that people are finding certain elements in this series of
work, in relation to their own perspectives, whether it involves
locality (nation etc) and or psychologically. I think this is good
because communicates in ways beyond my own trappings. I like letting
these works present, if possible, their unforced contexts -- it comes
out in the wash (for want of a better word) ;-)

Thanks for looking.

Wishing you well.

marc

On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 at 13:29, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour
 wrote:
>
> I've liked this series, I've seen other's you've done as well of course 
> online, reminding me of packing tape, packing strokes opening up to more of 
> the same; also at least over the western states in what used to be the usa, 
> now the sa, lightning in fierce storms, shattering the sky, all that against 
> the colors of masking tape and warning signs, assembled picture frames minus 
> image
>
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 6:38 AM marc garrett via NetBehaviour 
>  wrote:
>>
>> CV-17, 2020.
>>
>> When creating abstract works, push and pull is a term I used to know, 
>> meaning, pushing the foreground back so to level out the pictorial surface. 
>> Notice the white lines pulling it all together, connecting up with white 
>> background space.
>>
>> However, it was Hans Hofmann who originally used the phrase. It was 
>> associated "with his signature works of the 1950s and 1960s, in which bold 
>> color planes emerge from and recede into energetic surfaces of intersecting 
>> and overlapping shapes". This collage does that, but in it's own way.
>>
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Furtherfield disrupts & democratises art and technology through
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thinking. http://www.furtherfield.org

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Recent publications:

State Machines: Reflections & Actions at the Edge of Digital
Citizenship, Finance, & Art. Edited by Yiannis Colakides, Marc
Garrett, Inte Gloerich. Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2019
http://bit.do/eQgg3

Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain. Eds, Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett,
Nathan Jones, & Sam Skinner. Liverpool Press - http://bit.ly/2x8XlMK
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